saco-indonesia.com, Hari kelima pasca-erupsi Gunung Kelud, selasa (18/2), aktivitas di Kota Kediri telah berangsur-angsur pulih. Sebagian warga juga telah terlihat membersihkan pasir yang menutupi tempat tinggal mereka.

Saat sedang bersih-bersih rumah, banyak warga yang telah terjatuh dan mengalami luka, hingga harus dilarikan ke rumah sakit.

"Sejak hari sabtu itu total ada 88 orang, yang telah dirawat di rumah sakit Gambiran, karena terjatuh saat memperbaiki rumah," kata Humas RS Gambiran Nitra, saat dikonfirmasi, Selasa (18/2).

Nitra mengatakan, sebagian besar warga yang terjatuh mengalami patah tulang dan luka-luka lecet. Sehingga harus dirawat intensif di Rumah Sakit.

"Sebagian sudah dipulangkan yang lecet-lecet. Sementara yang patah tulang masih dirawat, selama beberapa hari," ucapnya.

Sementara itu, untuk biaya rumah sakit, Nitra juga menjelaskan, hingga saat ini masih ditanggung oleh korban. Belum ada bantuan biaya medis dari pemerintah daerah maupun pusat.

"Pemerintah belum kasih instruksi kalau biaya ditanggung oleh pemkab. Sementara masih dari warga sendiri yang membayar," tandasnya.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.